Maksym Slavinsky (also as Slavynsky uk, Максим Антонович Славинський ;12 August 1868 in

Stavyshche Stavyshche (, pl, Stawiszcze) is an urban-type settlement in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast (oblast, province) in northern Ukraine, on the Hnylyi Tikych river. It hosts the administration of Stavyshche settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of ...

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate, r=Kievskaya guberniya; uk, Київська губернія, Kyivska huberniia (, ) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It wa ...

- 23 November 1945 in

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) was a

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journalist, political and public figure, diplomat and statesman. He was an editor of many newspapers of liberal and pro-Ukrainian disposition in the

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. In 1918 Slavinsky was appointed as Minister of Labor, serving in the position for less than a month. Born in the Ukrainian town of

of the

, Slavinsky graduated from the Second Kiev Gymnasium. During his student years he was a member of the Kiev literary club "Pleyada" where along with

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

he translated the poetry of

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...

("Book of songs").

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Maksym Slavinsky
at the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was creat ...

Maksym Slavinsky
at the Jurist Encyclopedia * Hryskov, A.

'. "Chornomorski Novyny". 7 March 2013. * Ocheretyany, V.

'. "Electronic library of textbooks". {{DEFAULTSORT:Slavinsky, Maksym 1868 births 1945 deaths People from Stavyshche People from Kiev Governorate Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Ukrainian Democratic Party (1904) politicians 20th-century Ukrainian politicians Labor ministers of Ukraine Ambassadors of Ukraine to Czechoslovakia Inmates of Lukyanivska Prison